Over a year of Gentoo Linux!

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Originally published at ScummBlog. You can comment here or there.

First, an aside: Today I am a real Blogger. I am posting this from a coffee shop in Toronto!

January 10th (or thereabouts) marks the 1 year anniversary of me getting bored with a Windows XP workstation and installing Linux for the first time in many years. Since then I’ve added a wee Ubuntu box and a PowerMac G4 running OS X Leopard (a topic for a different post) to my managre,  and I haven’t missed having a Windows OS machine yet!

The Gentoo machine (Rands) has been running like a champ for over a year, with only a couple foibles (all my fault) ruining it’s uptime. Since I posted about setting it up I’ve migrated to the unstable AMD 64 branch (~amd64) and had nary a problem. A memorable futz-up on my part was me un-emerging coreutils after a package blocking problem… leaving me with no basic Linux utilitys (like LS or RM!) Thankfully, some kind soul on the Gentoo Forums saved me with a tar of his AMD 64-compiled coreutils!

I loved my year with Gentoo, and look forward to many more!